Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

The future is the shape of things to come.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.